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I take a 'smarter not harder' approach to training and adaptation. I have often said that I train humans, not robots; you cannot absorb what you cannot recover from. I use heart rate response to training loads in order to build an individualized model. I also believe that enjoyable training is effective training; the more you fall in love with the process, the better. An extensive background in exercise physiology helps me discern the appropriate changes I want to see happen for each athlete.
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RJ Cowan competed in cross country and track and field in the NCAA where he became a two-time All-American, South/Southeast Regional Champion as well as a multi-time school record holder.
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Looking to explore more forms of cardio in 2020, RJ discovered his passion for cycling. Soon after, RJ connected with CRYO-GEN, a welcoming cycling community of all abilities. Since then, RJ has competed in over 40 races with the men of CRYO RDT, including the team time trial, one of his favorite races.
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In 2018, he started working with triathletes and cyclists; a natural extension from a background in exercise physiology and time spent with his college coach, Bob Hepler – a 7-time Kona Ironman. In 2019, one of the first cyclists he coached went on to win the Texas State Team Time Trial Championship outdoors with her teammates. Additionally, RJ helped a 16-year-old improve from 4.2 to 4.9 w/kg in his FTP which also coincided with a drop to a 4:32 in the mile. Since then, RJ has worked with several cyclists on improving their overall fitness and enjoyment of the sport.
RJ began his career as a full-time Lecturer in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at the University of Texas at Tyler in 2010. He has taught Exercise Physiology, Principles of Training, Endurance Training, Sport Nutrition, Fitness Assessment Skills and Marathon Training, where he coached 25+ first-time runners to complete a marathon, which was featured on ESPN360. RJ's passion is to help runners and cyclists reach their goals and meet their potential.
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A modernidade comportamental é um conjunto de traços comportamentais e cognitivos que distingue o Homo sapiens atual de outros humanos, hominídeos e primatas anatomicamente modernos. A maioria dos estudiosos concorda que o comportamento humano moderno pode ser caracterizado por pensamento abstrato, profundidade de planejamento, comportamento simbólico (por exemplo, arte, ornamentação), música e dança, caça silvestre e tecnologia de lâminas, entre outros. Subjacente a esses comportamentos e inovações tecnológicas estão fundamentos cognitivos e culturais que foram documentados experimentalmente e etnograficamente por antropólogos evolucionistas e culturais. Esses padrões universais humanos incluem adaptação cultural cumulativa, normas sociais, linguagem e ampla ajuda e cooperação além dos parentes próximos.

Dentro da tradição da antropologia evolucionária e disciplinas afins, argumenta-se que o desenvolvimento desses traços comportamentais modernos, em combinação com as condições climáticas do último período glacial e do último máximo glacial causando gargalos populacionais, contribuíram para o sucesso evolutivo do Homo sapiens em todo o mundo em relação aos neandertais, denisovanos e outros humanos arcaicos.

Surgindo de diferenças no registro arqueológico, o debate continua sobre se os humanos anatomicamente modernos também eram comportamentalmente modernos. Existem muitas teorias sobre a evolução da modernidade comportamental. Estes geralmente caem em dois campos: abordagens gradualistas e cognitivas. O Modelo do Paleolítico Superior Tardio teoriza que o comportamento humano moderno surgiu através de mudanças cognitivas e genéticas na África abruptamente por volta de quarenta a cinquenta mil anos atrás, na época da emigração da África. Outros modelos se concentram em como o comportamento humano moderno pode ter surgido através de etapas graduais, com as assinaturas arqueológicas de tal comportamento aparecendo apenas por meio de mudanças demográficas ou baseadas em subsistência. Muitos citam evidências de modernidade comportamental anterior (por pelo menos cerca de 150 mil a 75 mil anos atrás e possivelmente antes), principalmente na Idade da Pedra Média africana. Sally McBrearty e Alison S. Brooks são proponentes notáveis do gradualismo, desafiando os modelos centrados na Europa ao situar mais mudanças na Idade da Pedra Média da pré-história africana, embora esta versão da história seja mais difícil de desenvolver em termos concretos devido a um registro fóssil cada vez menor à medida que se retrocede no tempo.

Ligações externas
 Steven Mithen (1999), The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science, Thames & Hudson, .
 Artifacts in Africa Suggest An Earlier Modern Human
 Tools point to African origin for human behaviour
 Key Human Traits Tied to Shellfish Remains, nytimes 2007/10/18
 "Python Cave" Reveals Oldest Human Ritual, Scientists Suggest
 Human Timeline (Interactive) – Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History (agosto de 2016).

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Coney Island - New York City, New York 1952, 1952, printed 1974
portfolio of 15 prints
image: 21.7 x 33 cm (8 9/16 x 13 in.)
mount: 37.5 x 50.2 cm (14 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.)
Gift of Lee and Maria Friedlander
Garry Winogrand (artist) American, 1928 - 1984
signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Garry Winogrand, lower left in graphite: 70/75
Lee and Maria Friedlander, New York; gift to NGA, 2006.
Friedlander, Lee and Maria
Garry Winogrand: Figments from the Real World. Exh. cat. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1988: 65.
Central Park Zoo - New York City, New York 1967
Los Angeles, California 1969
Metropolitan Museum of Art Centennial Ball - New York City, New York 1969
New York City, New York 1970
Staten Island Ferry - New York City, New York 1971
Hippy Hollow, Lake Travis - Austin, Texas 1973
Albuquerque, New Mexico 1958
Texas State Fair - Dallas, Texas 1964
San Marcos, Texas 1964
Dallas, Texas 1964
World's Fair - New York City, New York 1964
Klamath River, California 1964
American Legion Convention - Dallas, Texas 1964

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Mount Giluwe je hora v Papui Nové Guineji. Dosahuje výšky 4367 m n. m. a po Mount Wilhelm je nejvyšší horou státu. Jde o štítovou sopku se dvěma vrcholy, přičemž ten nižší (4300 m n. m.) se nachází dva kilometry východně od hlavního. Patří mezi Volcanic Seven Summits. Původní hora byla pravděpodobně stratovulkán s výškou podobnou současnému vrcholu. Rozsáhlé pleistocénní zalednění však značnou část povrchu původní hory erodovalo a následně vznikla současná hora.

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The only light that creeped into her space were that of the candles placed around the room. They flickered as Goddess' new toy moved freely around in midair. Free yet held by her binds. Her touch make Imp shiver with anticipation, she could feel the wetness between her legs. Listening intently to all her Mistresses commands, she could only hope her obedience was enough to buy her the pleasure she so desperately wants.
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by b2tw | January 30, 2013 · 11:23 AM
Bob Wiseman, "mothface@yahoo.ca" and other titles on Giulietta Masina at the Oscars Crying (2013)
Bob Wiseman, Tracy Wright & Sky Gilbert.
Bob Wiseman's new album, Giulietta Masina at the Oscars Crying, sets a series of challenges like crossword-puzzle clues. Each title is syntactically structured "[Subject] at [Location/Activity]," almost as if in an index. Together they ask: What difference does it make whether we get exactly what a song is about?
The subjects can be anything from cultural or political figures to personal friends: Neil Young at the Junos, The Reform Party at Burning Man, Aristide at the Press Conference, or Portrait of Phil at Various Times in a Closet. The one cover song both fits and breaks the mold, Sam Larkin's Children at Play. (Here's the original on Rdio.)
And one title plays on the fact that this is also the syntax of email: mothface@yahoo.ca, the address of the Toronto actor Tracy Wright (previously discussed here), who broke many of our hearts when she died at age 50 in 2010 of pancreatic cancer.
The song tells the story of a time in the 1980s* when Wiseman agreed to act in a play Wright wrote "that made no sense" because he figured no one "in their right mind" would put it on, but then theatre artist Sky Gilbert signed on to produce it in his Rhubarb experimental-theatre festival. As a result, Wiseman sings, "I always knew that I had nothing in common with Sky Gilbert." The line is repeated over and over, anthemically, in harmony.
Hearing it first at last week's launch concert at the Tranzac Club in Toronto, it started annoying me: Who outside a small Toronto arts circle gives a shit how Bob Wiseman feels about Sky Gilbert? Why write a song picking on Gilbert anyway?
Then the lyrics cross-cut to Wright's memorial, when Gilbert got up and said just what Wiseman was feeling and thinking about her, and moved him to tears. It turned out the two had something in common after all: "the love of you." And I came close to tears myself.
I wondered whether other people, who hadn't known Wright or who Gilbert is, would be so touched. Would they even keep listening up to the final twist? It made me ask, too, if the electricity of the launch, where many members of the local music community were renewing frayed connections, would come across to an outsider, and whether that mattered.
These are questions Wiseman's album prods: the effects of reference, and specificity versus so-called universality.
The particularity of Wiseman's subjects is part of his modus operandi as an artist engagé, a creative activist: the naming of names, the preservation of place, the marking of dates and times. Early in his solo career, he wrote songs that gave a blow-by-blow account of the Union Carbide disaster (live, starts about 0:55) or implicated the president of Pepsi Cola by name in the assassination of Salvador Allende. (A move that infamously got the first thousand copies of his first major-label album destroyed.) You could describe it as a Brechtian gesture of counter-propaganda, or as keeping shit real.
But it's never solely political. It's in Wiseman's voice, a harmonica-like needling without a hint of false gravitas. It's in the way he'll often interrupt a catchy melody with a dissonant solo or silly backup vocal, recklessly undermining what might have been some kind of "hit." It's in the cranky energy and nearly painful innocence of his writing, which attest that these aren't positions struck but art made by following the tracks of his preoccupations.
He sounds like a regular person who's ruefully aware that his complaints can't reroute the flows of power, but can at least take satisfaction in sharing and laughing or weeping over them. If some personal situations won't be transparent, perhaps listeners will connect anyway with having relationships and experiences that are exactly that, obscure and opaque in the supposed big picture of news and celebrity. Just like our own. And no less crucial to us for being so.
I do have affection for certain email addresses. Maybe your loved ones' familiar @'s also set off a warm and quiet hum.
Purposefully or not, the variations Giulietta Masina plays on the "X at Y" formula work through a range of possibilities about how we'll relate to the subject of a song. Neil Young at the Junos, for instance, treats a figure Wiseman can rely on his audience feeling like it knows well, then tries to say something unexpected – neither hagiographic nor cheaply skeptical – about him.
The title track unfolds most like a riddle: When Wiseman started playing it at the launch, my friend and I said to each other, "Do you have any idea who that is?" Then partway through I said, "For some reason I'm thinking about Fellini." And just as I was looking her up on my phone, Wiseman sang the final words, "8½." Giulietta Masina was Fellini's actress spouse.
I only later discovered that Ruby Bates at Grad School, one of my favourites, is about a woman who'd been an accuser in the racist 1930s Scottsboro Boys rape case, but later recanted her story and was vilified for it. I haven't identified the second woman, more contemporary, described as dying in an ambulance in the last verse, and am glad I haven't.
I knew right off who the protagonist of Robert Dziekanski at the Airport was – the Polish immigrant the RCMP mistakenly tased & killed at the Vancouver airport in 2007, and then whitewashed. A straight protest song, a bit obvious. Then I read a college student's review of the album who was startled to find out or be reminded of this event six long-to-him years ago.
Finally there's this guy Phil in the closet, along with someone named Rob Noyes who apparently dies, and "the campers of B.B. you've heard so much about." No clue. But I'm stirred by its final plaintive lines about wanting to repay Phil, "it's awful," for "being there at the airport or hospital." Would listening to the song about Tracy feel like this to others, like an emotional mystery?
My misgiving about Wiseman's songwriting is that he often is too literal for my tastes, even if I see why. This album, more than any since his now-storied debut In Her Dream, when he pretended to be singing songs by someone named "Wrench Tuttle," unsettles that directness fruitfully.
In his new book Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life, the psychoanalyst and critic Adam Phillips has a chapter called "On Not Getting It." He investigates how our drive to get the point, to nail down the meaning of a joke or a poem, to understand ourselves, to truly "know" other people (especially our lovers, our families), may become an evasion of other ways of existing and of allowing others to exist with and apart from us.
In Bob Wiseman's more literal songs he gets at things worth knowing for certain and stating clearly, most often how an injustice has been perpetrated or excused. But there are things worth being clueless about, worth never knowing – such as not knowing what we do and don't have in common, so we can be surprised when perhaps we need to be. Such as not knowing how to repay certain debts when all that really can be done is to acknowledge them.
Music has an unusual capacity to say a lot without knowing everything or even much at all. We can "get" a song's texture and its atmosphere without wanting to "get" all its content. We can hear it many times and only "get" something like "blah blah blah Gilbert, blah blah blah Gilbert … the love of you," and yet treasure the song.
Phillips quotes the notoriously elusive poet John Ashbery as saying that he writes as he does because if all you do is tell people things, they stop listening. But if they only overhear, they will be curious. On this album Bob Wiseman has things he wants to tell, but also lets us eavesdrop on him talking to himself or to others, about things we might not know or even need to know. The sites from which he sings can be nearby or at a distance, his phrases sharp or indistinct.
By ranging this way, by not always demanding we understand him, he implies that it is okay if we, his listeners, aren't utterly knowable too. By extension the people he sings about, at his best, cannot be captured and summed up, not reduced only to political subjects but allowed to be humans like the one who is singing about them.
At the least, a cop and an immigrant, Neil Young and Jean Bertrand Aristide, the Oscars and the airport, the halls of parliament and an ambulance all are, and acknowledging that may be to admit they share something unnameably more than everything that isn't** – including so-called universals such as patriotism, duty, righteousness.
In this sense, being specific, if you are specific about a great many things, might be a different program than we at first thought: less like itemizing a legal brief, and more like giving up on coercion.
* This section originally said Wiseman and Wright were dating at the time; Wiseman writes to tell me I misread his use of the word "girlfriend" – they were just friends.
** The basic idea about things that exist having existence in common is someone else's that I heard, read or was told about recently. I don't remember the source. My elaboration on it is my own (mis)interpretation.
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Nitram es una película de drama psicológico y biográfica australiana de 2021. Estuvo dirigida por Justin Kurzel a partir de un guion de Shaun Grant.

La película gira en torno a la vida y el comportamiento de un joven perturbado llamado "Nitram" (basado en Martin Bryant), y los acontecimientos que lo llevaron a ser partícipe en la Masacre de Port Arthur de 1996 en Tasmania (Australia). Fue protagonizada por Caleb Landry Jones, le siguen Judy Davis, Essie Davis y Anthony LaPaglia en los papeles principales.

Se estrenó en el Festival de Cine de Cannes el 16 de julio de 2021, donde Jones ganó el premio al Mejor Interpretación Masculina por su actuación. La película recibió un estreno teatral limitado en Australia el 30 de septiembre de 2021, antes de un lanzamiento digital en el servicio de transmisión australiano Stan el 24 de noviembre de 2021. Recibió críticas positivas de los críticos, quienes elogiaron la dirección de Kurzel y las actuaciones del elenco, aunque la película todavía se encontraba con la controversia de Tasmania.

Posteriormente, recibió ocho galardones en los Premios AACTA.

Sinopsis
El largometraje narra los acontecimientos que produjeron la Masacre de Port Arthur, en Tasmania, en el año 1996. El autor de tal atrocidad fue Martin Bryant, responsable de la muerte de 35 personas y de 23 heridos en uno de los tiroteos masivos más mortales de la historia de Australia.

Reparto
 Caleb Landry Jones como "Nitram" (Martin Bryant; "Nitram" es "Martin" escrito al revés)
 Judy Davis como la madre de Nitram (Carleen Bryant en la vida real)
 Essie Davis como Helen (Helen Mary Elizabeth Harvey en la vida real)
 Anthony LaPaglia como el padre de Nitram (Maurice Bryant en la vida real)
 Sean Keenan como Jamie
 Rick James como el dueño de la tienda de armas

Recepción
En el sitio web del agregador de reseñas Rotten Tomatoes, Nitram tiene un índice de aprobación del 89 % basado en 35 reseñas, con una calificación promedio de 7.7/10.

En Metacritic tiene una puntuación de 82 sobre 100 según las reseñas de 11 críticos, lo que indica "aclamación universal".

Recepción en Tasmania
La película fue recibida con una controversia generalizada dentro de la propia Tasmania. Kelly Spaulding, alcaldesa del Consejo de Tasmania, que incluye a Port Arthur, condenó la elección de hacer la película.

La Fundación Alannah y Madeline, establecida por el padre de dos niñas muertas en el tiroteo de Port Arthur, emitió un comunicado condenando también la elección de producir la película.

La Asociación de Policía de Tasmania, el sindicato de la Policía de Tasmania, indicó que le preocupaba cómo afectaría a la salud mental de los miembros del sindicato. El Star Theatre, Launceston y el State Cinema, Hobart fueron los únicos cines en Tasmania que exhibieron la película. Sin embargo, el Cine del Estado optó por no publicitar las proyecciones.

Premios y nominaciones

Véase también
Masacre de Port Arthur

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Nitram page on Madman Films website

Películas de 2021


The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) has slammed the Government's response to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee's report on the private rented sector, with the Government refusing to take on key recommendations.
CIEH had previously worked with the HCLG Select Committee on their inquiry, and gave evidence in February this year urging an update of the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) guidance and evidence base.
HHSRS, introduced in the Housing Act 2004, assesses risks to health and safety in the home and looks at faults and deficiencies that could cause injury and ill-health to residents. This system is the basis of how local authorities decide on whether they can or should take formal action on poor housing. The system has been in place since April 2006, and, since Grenfell, has taken on increased importance in ensuring that the places we live in are safe and not a direct danger to our health.
CIEH has been campaigning for the Government to commit to an update of HHSRS, and its evidence base, to ensure that it stays relevant and up to date going forward. As a result, the HCLG Select Committee echoed this call in their final report, noting that the baseline assumptions within the operating guidance for the HHSRS is now 12 years out of date and need immediately updating. The Committee report recommended a review of HHSRS.
"We are bitterly disappointed that the Government has decided not to make a decision on the review and update of the Housing Health and Safety Rating System – an issue that has surfaced throughout the Select Committee inquiry into the private rented sector.
The evidence and guidance that local authorities use to take action on dangerous housing conditions has not been reviewed or updated since it was introduced 12 years ago. Housing courts rely on this outdated guidance to make their decisions. We urge the Government to commit to a full update of HHSRS and to see how it could be improved going forward.
We are further disappointed to hear that decisions have also not been made on two other key areas of housing safety. The requirement to undertake 5 yearly electrical safety inspections and the need to provide a working carbon monoxide alarm for all rented properties with a fuel-burning device have been postponed until a later date.
CIEH is the professional voice for environmental health representing more than 8,000 members working in the public, private and non-profit sectors. It ensures the highest standards of professional competence in its members, in the belief that through environmental health action people's health can be improved.
Environmental health has an important and unique contribution to make to improving public health and reducing health inequalities. CIEH campaigns to ensure that government policy addresses the needs of communities and business in achieving and maintaining improvements to health and health protection.
For more information visit www.cieh.org and follow the CIEH on Twitter.


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Kadokawa Daiei Studio, formerly Kadokawa Pictures Inc. (角川映画株式会社, Kadokawa Eiga Kabushiki-gaisha) is the film division of Japanese company Kadokawa Corporation. It is a member of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPAJ), and is one of Japan's Big Four film studios.
Kadokawa Pictures absorbed Daiei Film assets to form Kadokawa Daiei Studio.
In 1975, Kadokawa's president, Haruki Kadokawa decided to venture into the film business, launching the film division of Kadokawa Shoten, thus Kadokawa Pictures was born. His goal was to try to reap synergy benefits by creating film adaptations of the publishing house's most popular books and marketing them simultaneously. The company's first film was the 1976 release The Inugamis, directed by Kon Ichikawa and adapted from a Kadokawa Shoten published novel written by Seishi Yokomizo. Due to an aggressive marketing campaign, the film ended as the second-largest earner of the year in Japan.
Between 1976 and 1993, Kadokawa produced close to 60 films. The company's pictures were usually large-scale epics with sizable budgets and matching advertising campaigns, aimed for mass audiences and box-office success. While critics weren't always kind on Kadokawa's works, the films were consistently popular among the viewing public. By 1992, 7 out of top 20 all-time highest box-office grossing Japanese films were Kadokawa's productions. During his time at Kadokawa Shoten, Haruki Kadokawa was often hailed as the savior of Japan's struggling film industry. Kadokawa's efforts to branch into foreign markets were consistently less successful. Its biggest failure came in 1992 when the 25 million US$ film Ruby Cairo, starring Andie MacDowell, failed to find a distributor in the United States. Haruki Kadokawa was forced to resign from Kadokawa Shoten after being arrested for smuggling cocaine. The new president was Haruki's younger brother Tsuguhiko, who had previously been forced out of the company in favor of Haruki's son Taro.
Kadokawa Shoten later acquired Daiei Film Co. from Tokuma Shoten following the passing of its president, Yasuyoshi Tokuma. In November 2002, Chairman Maihiko Kadokawa announced that Daiei Film Co. would merge with the company's own film division to form Kadokawa-Daiei Film Co., Ltd.
In March 2004, Kadokawa-Daiei Pictures Inc. acquired a 44% stake in Nippon Herald Films Inc., an independent film distributor founded in 1956, and acquired the remaining 56% stake the following year. It later changed its name to Kadokawa Pictures.
On March 1, 2006, it merged with the Kadokawa Herald to become Kadokawa Herald Pictures Inc. and later Kadokawa Pictures. In 2007, it changed its name to Kadokawa Shoten Pictures, with Shinichiro Inoue as its President and CEO.
After a merger with Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co. in 2011, it became the studio division of its parent company, Kadokawa Group Holdings Ltd. and maintained its name, Kadokawa Pictures, focusing on mixed-media business.
After the friendly acquisition in 2004, Kadokawa Pictures quickly went to work on several projects. It approached Toho Company Ltd. about co-producing Godzilla vs. Gamera in 2002, but the offer was rejected, so it turned its attention to reviving some of the combined studio's best-known properties since the Daiei Film Co. era. 2005 saw successful releases for both Masaaki Tezuka's Samurai Commando: Mission 1,549 (Sengoku Jieitai 1,549) and Takashi Miike's The Great Yokai War (Yokai Daisenso). As these two films opened in Japan, it revealed that the studio would begin shooting the 12th Gamera film in July 2005.
Five of their original eight Gamera films were mocked (twice) on Mystery Science Theater 3000. According to Shout! Factory, because of this, they were horrified by the mockery and refused to let Shout! release the MST3K versions on home video. Brian Ward (one of the members of Shout!) even stated in his own words that "The Japanese just aren't into their man-in-suit flicks being parodied or mocked in any way." However, thanks to Kadokawa selling the rights to a U.S. company (also according to Brian Ward), all five episodes were released by Shout! Factory on August 2, 2011.
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This is my 1-star review for Tiana M. HolbrookWilliams (aka Tiana Williams) who submitted an application and emailed her credit report and pay stubs around 08-03-18. She was very desperate/pushy from the start. She immediately expected her paperwork to be reviewed. Maybe 10-15 min after she emailed her 51 page report she texted me "Please let me know if you received email" and when I replied "I need time to review it" she immediately responded "Okay, how long would that take?" That pushiness and expectation that I am supposed to drop everything else for her should have been a red flag.
Her credit report was bad (under 650) and her net pay minus her loan expenses as listed by her on the application was less than two times the rent. The rule is that to qualify one needs to have about twice the rent in net income and she was under that so I declined her application over text message because of her "credit and lack of rental history" because in her texts to me she had stated that she "never had tenancy for 3 years I'm 23 and lived with my family before my last apt that I was at for a year and 3 months".
That should have been the end of it but she was very persistent (red flag #2) and explained that she has a rental history in her name even though just a minute ago she had said that she "never had tenancy for 3 years". So I decided to give her another chance and asked to see 12 months of proof of rental payments. The pushiness, the lack of communications skills where she was fast-typing that she had no rental history when in fact she should have typed that she did have rental history should have been all red flags. By the way if you are a landlord and are reading this, here is a good rule to remember – if a prospective tenant does not take no for an answer, if they beg and beg for you to reconsider, they are most likely trouble, stay away from them and their sob stories, your first instinct is usually right!
Talking about sob stories she told me how she moved in and then 6 months later the landlord called "someone" who inspected the apartment and told him that the apartment in Worcester has lead paint (why would a landlord call an inspector to inspect for lead paint six months into a tenancy?) and now he is asking her to move. Really? That raised a big red flag in me. If she didn't call the Health Board, did the landlord call the Health Board on his own to inspect for lead paint or maybe he called a lead paint inspector on his own but only after 5-6 months after she moved in? So I wanted to talk with her landlord to hear his side of the story. She gave me a number and I spoke with someone but of course when a prospective tenant gives you a number to a "landlord" there is no guarantee that you are speaking with their real landlord. It could be just a friend or a relative posing as her landlord on the phone. So her "landlord" told me that he gave her a 30 day notice to leave because he has to delead. I simply told him that the anti-discrimination laws in MA require that he deleads rather than evict tenants over lead paint which he did not want to hear.
I also searched Google and I found the following listing in the Worcester Telegram from 2014 "Tiana M. Holbrook-Williams, 19, of 4 Veterans Ave., Worcester, charged with larceny over $250". Over the phone she confirmed to me that her middle initial is "M" and I could do the math that at the time of the publication she would have been 19 years old. The address "4 Veterans Ave" was not on her rental receipts so I don't know what happened with this arrest and an arrest is not the same as conviction and on its own is not enough to deny housing but it is just another red flag. She also told me over the phone that her ex-boyfriend left 4 months ago and he used to pay half the rent but not anymore (later, after I declined for a 2nd time her application for bad credit and income being too low she changed her story and claimed that he is still sending her money for rent). In addition, she told me that someone else will be paying First, Last and Security which also was a bit of a red flag for me because even Section 8 tenants must come up with at least their own Security Deposit and she didn't even have that. (later, after I declined her application for a 2nd time for bad credit and income being too low she claimed that she had savings but this organization is helping her because the move was not due to her doing. Gee, if that's the threshold then anybody who gets a Notice for no-cause should get their First, Last and Security covered by whoever is giving her that money).
In any case I had decided that there were too many red flags so I texted her a 2nd denial "After thinking and looking at your whole record, I have decided to pass, because of your net income and credit". But she just wasn't going to accept that. Her boyfriend was still sending her money for rent (even though she never presented any proof), she had savings but she was going to accept someone else to pay for her First, Last and Security "because I am being misplaced not due to my doing", I ask for a lot of information and then I don't even help which is "ridiculous and unnecessary" and I am discriminating against her, etc and that I would be getting an "awful report on yelp"…Clearly her "landlord" and her had a conversation right after I talked with him where they discussed what I had told him about discrimination.
I saw that indeed she had posted a 1-star review about me on Yelp. I asked her to remove her unfair review because if not removed, I must publish a public answer to defend my business and she would not like the 1-star review she would get from me as a potential tenant and I told her that all future landlords and employers might read my review of her and decide to not rent to her or hire her. I asked twice over text explaining all of that to her but she said I was harassing her and she was not going to remove it. She said I should go ahead with my public reply.


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Stephen Price MLA
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About Stephen About Forrestfield
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About Stephen Price
Stephen Price is a local dad with four teenage girls and two beloved rescue greyhounds, together with his wife Melanie. He is patron of Forrestfield Bowling Club and an active member of five local school boards.
Growing up as a son of small business owners in regional WA has given Stephen invaluable insight and appreciation into the challenges of operating a small business.
His parents also impressed on him the importance of contributing to their local neighbourhood where he served as a volunteer with the West Dardanup Volunteer Bushfire Brigade, Captain and Deputy Chief Bushfire Control Officer for the Shire of Dardanup and a trainer for Bushfire Brigade volunteers. This is the same sense of community he instils in his own family.
Stephen started his working life as a FIFO gold miner and worked at an alumina refinery. He became an advocate in his workplace for the safety and protection of his colleagues.
During his career as an elected official of the Australian Workers' Union, he was involved in workplace negotiations to improve wages and conditions for West Australian workers, in the mining, agriculture, offshore oil and gas, construction, forestry and government sectors. This included negotiations with local, state and federal governments, multi-national employers and industry groups.
Stephen also has a Gradate Diploma in Management and a Master of Business Administration.
In 2017 Stephen was elected as the Member for Forrestfield as part of the McGowan Government.
With Stephen's experience he understands the importance of creating well paid and stable jobs for people today as well as the need to be creating jobs of the future and getting our children ready for them.
Like all families, Stephen and Melanie want the best for their children, including a strong education and understand the challenges of raising children and balancing the family budget.
Delivering for our local community is important to Stephen. As the Member for Forrestfield Stephen has delivered investment in our local sporting clubs, community groups and schools; an increased local police presence; and improvements to local roads and rail infrastructure.
He is delivering on his previous election commitments of a major upgrade to Darling Range Sports College and a fully grade separated intersection at Roe Highway and Kalamunda Road.
As a member of Mark McGowan's team, Stephen is committed to delivering for our community and is working hard to create more opportunities for the community he lives in.
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Home / News / I quit my marriage, 3 months after I got pregnant - Actress Yvonne Jegede
I quit my marriage, 3 months after I got pregnant - Actress Yvonne Jegede
Dejimoyero Wednesday, March 06, 2019 News
Yvonne Jegede has finally opened up on her marital crisis.
"We started having issues before the birth of Xavier. I think I was about two to three months pregnant when the issues came. Immediately the issues came, there was never a dull moment, it just kept going up and up and it got worse and it got bad and today here we are," she began.
The actress with a career spanning 16 years said when the issues in her marriage to Abounce, a former rapper and actor, became obvious and irredeemable she moved out of their matrimonial home after a mutual agreement.
Right now, we are not living together, and we are not living as husband and wife, we are not husband and wife anymore and I would say a mutual agreement to go our separate ways. It didn't work out, it wasn't working out," Jegede said.
However, Jegede said her marriage to Abounce was worth it for the months it lasted. She said the times they shared together as a couple were nice and sweet so she wouldn't trample on those times.
Recall that there have been unconfirmed rumours about the paternity of Xavier, her four-month-old son with husband, Olakunle Abounce Fawole.
In an exclusive interview with Pulse, Yvonne Jegede said Abounce can't deny the fact that Xavier is 100% his son.
"I don't call him. I only reached out to him when I feel the need to because he knows Xavier is his son, he is 100% sure he's his son," Jegede said reacting to the rumour about the paternity of her son.
Continuing, the 'Being Annabel' actress said, "He's been to the house twice after we got back to the country, he's come to see his son twice and he has pictures with his son on his phone which I took so why he's not posting them, maybe his personal reasons, maybe he's not like me who is showing my joy to the world, I don't know but is that enough to give me a name?
"No, you don't give me a name like that, common, that is not right, people tried to bully me or make dry joke over this, about my life, would you be happy if I were your sister but anyways, I am here, I am strong and will be strong for my son. I have morals to set for him and what the world is about."
The Nollywood actress, who featured in 2face Idibia's music video, 'African Queen,' welcomed her first child with Abounce in November 2018.
Jegede and Abounce have been quiet over the rumour of their separation since it went viral a few months after Jegede announced the birth of the couple's only child together.
The couple had their court and traditional wedding in 2017.
I quit my marriage, 3 months after I got pregnant - Actress Yvonne Jegede Reviewed by Dejimoyero on Wednesday, March 06, 2019 Rating: 5


Just as he's done for the past few years, Neymar threw himself a lavish party in Paris to celebrate his birthday on Monday night.
The Paris Saint-Germain star actually turned 27 on Feb. 5 -- the same birthday as Cristiano Ronaldo, Carlos Tevez, Sven-Goran Eriksson and about 19 million others around the world.
Neymar said that he wished he had "a new metatarsal" in a tearful speech to his assembled friends and family, but that was only a temporary break in the festivities.
Looks like a thoroughly enjoyable time was had by all, even those who had to sit through Alves' atonal caterwauling.
We can hardly wait to see what next year's theme is going to be? Mythological animals? Space jazz? Anglo-Saxon strip farming? The mind boggles.


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Finastra to power core retail banking at Al Taif Islamic Bank
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Al Taif Islamic Bank has chosen Fusion Islamic, Finastra's core banking solution dedicated to the Islamic market, to kick start its retail business. The move will provide the new challenger bank's customers with a consistent and user-friendly experience in branch and across all digital channels, whilst complying with Shari'ah requirements.
Al Taif Islamic Bank, which started 15 years ago as Al Taif Company for Money Transfer and is part of Al Taif Group, has ambitious goals to establish itself as a leader in the financial market in Iraq. Finastra's solution is delivered with pre-configured Shari'ah compliant products, which will help the bank develop new services faster and roll them out through multiple channels at low cost, giving it a competitive edge. Fusion Islamic is also expected to alleviate pressure on IT teams whilst ensuring rapid time-to-market, minimizing risks and maximizing efficiency.
Reda Hamza, CEO at Al Taif Islamic Bank said, "Our vision is to challenge the status quo of the financial services sector in Iraq and there is a strong opportunity to offer new services to the unbanked population here. In addition to our branch presence, going digital is the best way for us to reach this market. Working with Finastra means that we have access to wide resources and products which will help us launch our branch quickly as we roll out the digital offering, and then accompany us on our exciting growth journey. Our company has been ranked the best in Iraq when it comes to money transfer and banking, due to our extensive network of branches within Iraq and all over the world. We are looking forward to collaborating with Finastra and continuing our success story with our broad base of customers and positioning ourselves as leaders in Islamic Banking in Iraq."
Al Taif Islamic Bank selected Finastra for its solid reputation in the region and the possibility to enhance and extend the functionality of their product with features relevant to their needs. The ability to benefit from FusionFabric.cloud, Finastra's platform for open innovation, was also a draw. This will enable the bank to develop new features and capabilities in the cloud in the future either internally or in conjunction with external parties including Fintechs and developers.
Wissam Khoury, Managing Director Middle East and Africa at Finastra said, "Al Taif Islamic Bank is the first Iraqi private bank we have worked with, and is a great example of a forward-thinking organization ready to embrace digital. Whilst this deal is initially aimed at the bank's retail customers, we have also signed a strategic partnership with the Al Taif Group's IT arm (Al Taif Technical Services) to build skills and capabilities to help transfer knowledge in the growing Iraqi Fintech sector, enabling us to develop our presence in the region and encourage collaboration."
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If you have read my blogs in the past, you probably noticed I'm a big fan of Cumbia. So low and behold, bubbling in the city of Norwalk of all places, comes a band that sounds like they came straight from Magdalena, Colombia. They are called Buyepongo. Most of the band is very young, yet they have a sound that rivals Cumbia legends such as Andres Landero, Lisadro Meza and Aniceto Molina.
There are many things I love about this band. They are descendants and citizens from Guatamala, El Salvador, Bolivia and Mexico. Still, it seems these guys have Cumbia running through their veins just by the way they play it. It would be easy to mistake Buyepongo for a Colombian band three times their age.
Another thing is that they are a great live band and they write their own songs. I saw them for the first time in a bar in Pasadena on Monday and I could of sworn they were playing obscure Cumbia covers.
And lastly... at last, there is another local Vallenato group that isn't Very Be Careful! I love the VBC, but it's good to have variety and more than one group in L.A. playing this type of music.
I think I mentioned before that I had the good fortune of meeting Joe Strummer a few times. On those occasions we talked about Cumbia and his love for it. I remember turning him on to Very Be Careful and he went gaga over them, so much so that he had VBC open for him during his last L.A. shows. I wish he was around for Buyepongo, he would have dug these guys.
Buyepongo have nothing released yet but you can go to their myspace page to hear some live tracks.


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How my blog started the avalanche that buried presidential aide Tim Goeglein.
By Nancy Derringer
March 03, 20084:02 PM
Tim Goeglein
I spent much of last Friday being congratulated for "brilliant reporting" that consisted of a minute's worth of typing on my laptop. That's how long it took for me to notice what seemed to be merely a case of egregiously obscure name-dropping ("A notable professor of philosophy at Dartmouth College in the last century, Eugene Rosenstock-Hussey, expressed the matter succinctly. …"), paste the name into Google, and discover the entire sentence, Rosenstock-Hussey and all, had been lifted from a previously published essay by Jeffrey Hart in the Dartmouth Review.
The plagiarism was in a column for a newspaper I used to work for, the News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne, Ind. The piece was a guest op-ed about the importance of a good college education written by Timothy S. Goeglein, a top aide to President Bush. A Fort Wayne native, he was a hometown boy made good, hired by Karl Rove in the Office of Public Liaison. Goeglein was the White House's go-between to religious groups, a "pipeline to the president," as the Washington Post called him. Why he felt the need to contribute entirely nonpolitical columns to the hometown paper, and to the one with the smaller circulation (Fort Wayne is the smallest two-daily market in the country), was, until last Friday, a mystery.
Finding the theft took 60 seconds; drafting a post for my blog, about an hour. I held it overnight to give my ex-colleagues a little notice and published it at 7:38 a.m. Friday. It was linked pretty quickly by Romenesko and then by some of the big-traffic amplifiers (Talking Points Memo, Atrios). I figured the story would get some notice, but I was unprepared for the turns it would take.
After posting the original entry, I thought I'd poke around in some of Goeglein's other published work and see whether anything else turned out to have been borrowed. As a journalist whose formative years took place in the 20th century, I thought of that, quaintly, as a "second-day" story.
"Second-hour" would have been more accurate. By the time the post started drawing traffic, other readers were having the same idea. At 11:03 a.m., a commenter called the Kenosha Kid noted duplicate passages in a Goeglein column on Hoagy Carmichael and a Washington Post piece on the same subject by Jonathan Yardley. At 11:30 a.m., the Journal Gazette, the other daily in Fort Wayne, had a story up saying Goeglein had come clean in an e-mail, taken full responsibility, and said, "[T]here are no excuses."
I'd expected a more typical explanation, something about multiple windows open on the computer desktop, sloppy cutting and pasting between notes and drafts, something that was at least remotely plausible and face-saving. But surely Goeglein knew what else was coming.
At 11:59 a.m. and noon, two other commenters on my blog, Adam Stanhope and Grytpype Thynne, had found more wholesale borrowings, these in a piece on composer Gian Carlo Menotti. The original, by Robert R. Reilly in Crisis magazine, was written in the first person and contained such observations as, "Despite criticism, Menotti never surrendered the role of beauty. We can now hear one of his strongest expressions of it in the appropriately named Missa: O Pulchritudo. … My first reaction was: What kind of cultural prejudice kept this recording on ice for 25 years?"
Goeglein lifted it all, right down to Reilly's first reaction about cultural prejudice.
From there, it snowballed. By day's end, the official count of cut-and-paste columns was 20 out of 38 submitted since 2000, but the paper's reporters continued to check, and on Monday the total was revised to 27. Goeglein submitted his resignation on the way out the door Friday, less than 12 hours after my first posting.
Saying the news cycle moves at an ever-increasing pace doesn't even qualify as a cliché anymore. But this felt like a new record. Reporting in one minute, writing in one hour, a whole career undone in one day. Reading the comments piling up on the original post was a surreal experience, as one reader after another checked in with evidence, with links. It was journalism as hive mind. "Everyone wants to play now," someone wrote after posting a link.
I spent much of the weekend thinking about all this. My ex-colleague Leo Morris, who edits the op-ed pages Tim used as his canvas for all those years, did as well and wrote on his blog: "This wasn't mere hardware-pushed speed—a breaking news story for which people all around the world could see a grainy cell-phone photo five minutes after it happened. This was the online dynamic—people talking about the story and adding to it as it got bigger and more complex throughout the day."
The story was new media, but, ironically, at its core was a very old-media concern—getting the little things right. Friday night, I got an e-mail from a fan of that notable Dartmouth professor of philosophy whose name started this whole thing. And guess what? Jeffrey Hart misspelled his name. It's Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, not Eugene, not Hussey. When I entered the misspelled name into Google, it only turned up a couple pages of hits, and Hart's essay was on the first page, so I spotted it right away. But if Hart had spelled the name correctly and Goeglein had pasted it as such in his own column, Hart's decade-old Dartmouth Review essay, which mentioned the professor only in passing, would probably have been far back in the queue in the 20,000 Google hits his real name gets. And I probably would not have seen it—after all, I was just trying to find out how "notable" he was.


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Q: What is the usage of biometrics(Touch ID/Face ID) API that cannot identify multiple users? [Question]
I understand biometrics API(Touch ID/Face ID) is for authenticating if the birometrics are registered to the device and not for identifying multiple users.
I think this behavior is reasonable because biometrics information is very sensitive information.
My question is "But then what is the usage of biometrics API?"
If the device is unlocked from the beginning and somebody except the device's owner can run the app that requires Touch ID/Face ID authentication, he also can register his fingerprint or face to the device and pass the authentication.
My understanding for the usage of biometrics API is for the trivial privacy protection when your family or friend ask you lend your iPhone temporally to google searching or call someone.
Please tell me if I'm misunderstanding something.
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I installed 1Password and asked my coworker to register his face to my iPhone X(iOS 12.1.2), He also can access my credentials through iOS's auto-filling function.

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Academic Program Affiliation(s): Global and International Studies, Historical Studies, Victorian Studies
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Area of Specialization: Twentieth-century history
Ph.D., University of Cambridge. Fellow, Royal Historical Society. Author and editor of 11 books, including Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian; Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship; Macmillan, Eisenhower and the Cold War; The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli; and biographies of Malcolm Sargent and Tony Ryan. Taught for 15 years at University College Dublin, where he was chair of the History Department. Writes regularly for publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and The American Interest, where he is a contributing editor. Took up the Eugene Meyer Chair at Bard in 2010.
Research Interests: Anglo-American relations; British and American politics
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One of my favorite sales of the year is finally here! The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale Early Access has begun! You can shop Early Access starting today if you have a Nordstrom Card and now is the time to take advantage of all these deals! If you don't have a card, fear not, you can shop the sale starting on the 21st bright and early! What I love so much about this sale, is that it's basically the one time of year where I can make sure to stock up for fall and winter and just all around staples. Not only fashion wise, but the beauty, home and men's department also – this sale has it all! I've gone through the sale and found my must-haves and the pieces that you need to add to your cart.
This sale is a bit different than the normal Nordstrom sale because all of the styles on sale are BRAND new for fall and winter and will become full priced as soon as the sale is over! For shopping this sale, it's super important to grab everything you think you may want so that you won't regret it later when it's either out of stock or back to full price! If you saw something you loved go out of stock, keep checking back here and on my IG and stories – I'll be going through the sale daily to check for restocks and will always let you know! I've already grabbed a bunch of these, but I have my eye on this pullover especially!
Pink Cable Knit Cardigan // FIT : Oversized! I'm wearing the US 4 but would definitely say to size down. It's super cozy and thick, and it will be perfect to throw on now or later.
Distressed Denim // FIT : True to size! This denim brand is one of my favorites, and the fit and quality is always amazing. Make sure to pick them up now!
Peep Toe Booties // FIT : True to size! I got my normal shoe size, and they fit perfectly. And I mean, how cute are they? They come in a few colors, so definitely grab one!
Draped Button Front Jacket // FIT: I'm wearing an XS here, but actually sized up to a small! It runs a bit tight in the arms, and I wanted to make sure I could layer it under a long sleeve top or light sweater in the cooler months.
Thread and Supply Jacket // FIT: Overized! I'm wearing the small here and love how cozy it is. It will be cute with leggings or jeans!
Camo Thermal Top // FIT: I'm wearing a small. I would say to either size up or go with your normal size! I found this to be a bit tight in the arms, but still SO cute!
Side Slit Booties // FIT: True to size! They also have the cutest lace up detail on the side and come in a ton of colors.
Pullover // FIT: Runs small! I generally find with Patagonia that is runs on the smaller side. I sized up to a medium and will be able to layer under it!
Plaid Top // FIT: True to size. I'm wearing a small and love the way it fits! Long in the back and fits the arms great.
Thanks so much for stopping by; I can't wait to share more of my favorites from the sale! And happy shopping!


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A Short Guide to Selected health arm's-length bodies
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I tried a new class tonight called Body Pump. It was probably the most intense workout I've ever had. It's all about weightlifting, core and strength training. My body felt like a wet noodle ... seriously. I felt like my legs were going to give out when I was walking to the car and my arms were shaking so badly (along with my legs).
It was great! I'm looking forward to doing it again. :-D It challenged me and pushed me further than I thought I could go. I was so happy because I actually talked Brad into trying this class with me. It was the first class he's ever tried and I think it was the most intense workout he's ever had, too. He feels noodley, as well. I'm hoping he'll do it again with me. I'm also hoping we can move our bodies tomorrow.
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Bookmans Favorites | Heroines from Kids Books
by Bookmans May 2, 2017
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We recently took a moment to search for the all-time best selling children's books and stumbled upon a list published in 2001 from Publishers Weekly. Compiled of well over 100 children's books ranked by their sales, the number one kid's book was The Pokey Little Puppy by Janette Lowrey. Published in 1942, this book has sold more than 14,898,341 copies. That's insane! It's not surprising that the other top authors are classics such as Dr. Seuss, J.K Rowling, Shel Silverstein and Beatrix Potter, who wrote the Peter Rabbit stories. We noticed, however, that these top selling stories all have one thing in common: the main characters are all male-oriented. With the exception of Hermione Granger from Harry Potter (p.s. she is absolutely one of our all-time favorite fiction females) not a single book within the top 20 spots has a female lead. So we're taking it upon ourselves to compile a list of our favorite children's books with strong female leads. Some titles you may recognize and others you may not. Either way, we want your future feminists to have a library full of women they can look up to. Let's dive in!
For your toddler warriors, our personal favorite is Not All Princesses Dress in Pink by Jane Yolen. Check out this little excerpt from the book:
"Not all princesses dress in pink. Some play in bright red socks that stink, blue team jerseys that don't quite fit,
accessorized with a baseball mitt, and a sparkly crown!"
There are also a handful of other picture books that let girls know it is okay to play hard, dress how they want and achieve their dreams. The Princess Knight by Cornelia Funke tells us the tale of a young princess whose only wish is to be rowdy and strong like her older brothers. To prove her worth, she disguises herself as a boy for a local jousting competition and wins. Only then is she granted the freedom she's been denied.
Another great tale is Grace for President by Kelly S. DiPucchio. When Grace learns there has never been a female president, she immediately runs for her class's mock elections. Not only does this story introduce our electoral system in a manner that is easy to digest, it also shows us the courage and determination of a brave young girl. What more could we want for our young girls than confident, intelligent and maybe a little mischievous role models?
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans is a timeless classic. This independent young lady keeps her head mistresses on her toes as she discovers the world and the people within it. We want our ladies to be powerful! These picture books not only make it easy to introduce our young ones to reading, but to inspiring role models as well.
If your young one is just beginning to read, there's a surprising amount of early readers and beginning chapter books that have phenomenal female characters. In the A-Z Mystery series by Ron Roy, there's Ruth Rose. She's a crime solving champ amongst a group full of boys. She'd make any detective proud with her sleuthing abilities.
There's also the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osbourne. Annie and her brother Jack have a unique secret; their tree house is magic and whisks them away on outlandish adventures full of action and suspense. Annie is a true role model and more often than not, she ends up saving her brother from trouble.
There's also the Ivy and Bean series by Annie Barrows, about two best friends who love adventure and causing trouble. If your child prefers something on the "edgier" side, Franny K. Stein by Jim Benton offers the creepy tale of Franny and her bedroom experiments. Talk about needing more women in the STEM fields, Franny makes science fun and dangerous!
In need of something more challenging? If you child is beyond picture books and whizzing through beginning readers, it's time to enter the realm of chapter books. With girls like Matilda from Roald Dahl or Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren, the portal has been opened to a whole world of independent and creative girls who set the bar high and never cease to inspire. There's Harriet from Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh who observes her neighborhood and logs it all in her notebook. Savvy by Ingrid Law introduces us to the character Mibs, who must prove her magical abilities and save her father.
There's a whole series titled Royal Diaries, each story by a unique author, that take us into the lives of notable historical women. Meet influential ladies like Nzingha the African warrior queen, Isabel the jewel of Castilla, Spain and Lady of Ch'iao Kuo, the red bird of the South. Titles like The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Graceling, The Frog Princess, Walk Two Moons and A Wrinkle in Time are all phenomenal reads with girls who kick total butt!
These girls are full of empowerment. They may not have made the Best Sellers list on Publishers Weekly, but they sure make our list for being strong ladies. This is only the tip of the iceberg, too. Come in and let us show you all the other amazing reads for young girls. There's no better time to introduce your little leaves to new literature and new role models. Let us know what you think or comment and recommend some of your own.
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